From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GDM blank for anyone else with guix system vm?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:27:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201117072746.GT987@E5400> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2j0euni.fsf@dustycloud.org>
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 06:42:09PM -0500, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote:
> Not sure why but when testing:
>
> ./pre-inst-env guix system vm gnu/system/examples/lightweight-desktop.tmpl
>
> (and also the normal non-lightweight desktop) I'm getting a blank screen
> once gdm is supposed to start up, but the mouse can still move. I'm
> also running the intel graphics card here.
>
> Just curious, is anyone else having this problem?
How much memory are you giving it? There might not be enough for GDM to
actually start. IIRC that command spits out a shell script in the store,
so you can run './gnu/store/really-long-path.sh -m 2G' to switch to using
2GB of RAM.
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2020-11-16 23:42 GDM blank for anyone else with guix system vm? Christopher Lemmer Webber
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